Also, this card is actually pretty deece, I'd say opening an Attraction should be worth around the same as drawing a card, considering it's not as strong as a "real" card but it's also free, and if you manage to consistently drop this, get a 3rd Attraction and draw 1 extra card at the end step you'd get a 4 MV Mulldrifter which is REALLY good, nevermind the fact it keeps drawing every turn.
The Trash Bin qualifying as an Attraction is hilarious.
Also, what's up with #2's flavor text? Is WotC going to start putting the usual MTGSalvation posts on Magic cards now?
Can somebody explain to me why Goblin Cruciverbalist is an acorn card, while this vehicle, that also get pumped based on letters appearing in a word, it's eternal legal?
Well, for starters, memory issues, language barriers and the ever-growing pains of defining what constitutes a "word". This one is far easier to track, has only a limited dictionary of stickers and while it doesn't translates perfectly for other languages, I'm pretty sure the headache of a Japanese player trying to make up alliteration out of English words will be far less excruciating than trying to spell something on their native language using an English alphabet and then trying to figure out how to calculate a word's length out of it.
Here we have possibly the greatest sticker sheet in Unfinity. Good pumping ability, Hexproof, Colossal Dreadmaw stats, an acorn, a hat and, most important of all, that absolutely adorable Liliana doll. A mint version of this sticker sheet will be worth big bucks methinks.
The Vehicle is fine, 4/5 flier for 4 if you get the alliteration bonus, but only when attacking. Can be further augmented, sure, but getting 3 or 4 sheets with a matching alliteration will be pretty difficult and I dunno if the payoff is worth it since as with every Vehicle it's pretty dead without any creatures.
Don't be fooled, this card is not a good payoff, nowadays 5 MV 8/8 vanilla wouldn't even qualifiy as a bomb in Limited. It is, however, a fantastic synergy card - if you ever needed a card to crank up The Space Family Goblinson and other die roll payoffs up to 11 this is the one you want... literally: by itself this + the Goblinsons should be a 11/11 Trampler swinging on Turn 5.
"Dress up like all your favorite Planeswalkers! And Oko." is the most self-aware I've seen Wizards being in years.
The card itself is neat but in non-Acorn not generating Tickets itself is a tough sell since on a vacuum all it can do is change names to circumvent Legend rules, and going through all the hoops of setting up an Attraction, generating tickets AND hoping you get a Visit roll for one measly Sticker augmentation is awful. On Acorn names are more relevant than that and art augmentation is a thing so it's far more useful.
Oh, and Nearby Planet seems to be the first acorn card that works in the rules and isn't impossible to manage. I assume the Urza's types and locus were the big reasons for this, and I'd bet we see the "all basic land types" version of this in the near-ish future.
Sometimes, noncreature card types comes with rules baggage, like Sagas, Auras and Equipments. So far this is not the case for Land types other than the basics, but making it Acorn stamped might also be a way of future-proofing the card so that a zany one-off in an Un-set doesn't cuts off potential future design space.
Out of all the things I expected from a MTG article, getting Rickrolled and a reference to a Command & Conquer meme were not what I had in mind but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Interesting that there are cards that are eternal legal that use stickers. Are the stickers removable? If not, is it legal to place the stickers over a card sleeve? I’m asking because presumably putting a sticker on a card and then shuffling up that card for another game would be considered playing with marked cards since the sticker would slightly increase the card’s thickness in that spot.
Stickers stay for as long as the card remains in a public zone. Putting a sticker on your Commander for example permanently adds that trait to the card as it dies and goes back to the command zone, but said sticker "falls off" the moment someone casts a Cyclonic Rift and you decide to return said Commander to the hand. WotC said that the stickers are very similar to Post-It Notes and thus should be easy to add and remove plus they should be fairly reusable.
Jermane and "four-legged Tribal" just made me realize this might be THE chance to get a definitive Commander for Chair Tribal.
Rangeling and Nearby Planet made me chuckle. Solid card too.
Rock Star is a really fun concept but I really don't like these kinds of "pause the game" cards at Common. Still, in this specific case the idea of "prioritizing drafting cards with names that sound cool to tutor out with Rock Star" is such a wild concept that I can't help but love it. Also, if someone ever flips Into The Maw of Hell out of a Rock Star this automatically eliminates the need to ask anyone which is a plus.
Hot dang, no acorn? If this is the level of zaniness to be expected form no-acorn cards I'm digging the set already.
As for the card itself, it's fine, hard to evaluate but probably on the weak side. Opponents will probably try to split up their creatures evenly amongst sectors, which allows you to load up your team on a single sector and then either get a huge swing at their "weakest" sector or pump every creature you own and a few of your opponents' weakest creatures.
And yeah, in case you haven't noticed, Jace DOES pumps your opponents' creatures and destroys your own creatures if they are in the targeted sector. I'd put him on around the same power level as Ajani, the Greathearted since he has a much stronger +1 but also a weaker minus and no passive. And Ajani was fine, didn't saw much play in Constructed but was playable. Of course, I much prefer Space Beleren's design for obvious reasons.
Nice, so a new Human Gamer means either the R Vorthos, Flavor Gamer or W Mel, Mechanics Gamer is in. Probably Vorthos since if we're dealing with flavor the idea of "attaching" stuff to a card name or art via stickers would synergize the most.
Also I assume the clue "first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes" probably relates to something like "if a creature card portrays a creature with wings, that creature has flying. The same is true for [HINTED TEXT] and trample if it's larger than an adult person"... Or something like that. Either way, sounds fun.
A lot of love for this card, but I'll point out that it doesn't affect the board until the third chapter. Read ahead obviously helps if you need the reanimation fast, but 5 mana zombify isn't anything special. This can still be a 3-for-1 though and I like that read ahead gives a lot of extra functionality. I imagine you may end up skipping at least the first chapter a lot since the discard is pretty limited.
Why wouldn’t the card tutored for in the second chapter affect the board?
That card you search for might but we don't say Divination affects thr board if you draw into a Murder. Divination will still be tempo loss.
Also, this card is actually pretty deece, I'd say opening an Attraction should be worth around the same as drawing a card, considering it's not as strong as a "real" card but it's also free, and if you manage to consistently drop this, get a 3rd Attraction and draw 1 extra card at the end step you'd get a 4 MV Mulldrifter which is REALLY good, nevermind the fact it keeps drawing every turn.
Also, what's up with #2's flavor text? Is WotC going to start putting the usual MTGSalvation posts on Magic cards now?
The Vehicle is fine, 4/5 flier for 4 if you get the alliteration bonus, but only when attacking. Can be further augmented, sure, but getting 3 or 4 sheets with a matching alliteration will be pretty difficult and I dunno if the payoff is worth it since as with every Vehicle it's pretty dead without any creatures.
The card itself is neat but in non-Acorn not generating Tickets itself is a tough sell since on a vacuum all it can do is change names to circumvent Legend rules, and going through all the hoops of setting up an Attraction, generating tickets AND hoping you get a Visit roll for one measly Sticker augmentation is awful. On Acorn names are more relevant than that and art augmentation is a thing so it's far more useful.
Stickers stay for as long as the card remains in a public zone. Putting a sticker on your Commander for example permanently adds that trait to the card as it dies and goes back to the command zone, but said sticker "falls off" the moment someone casts a Cyclonic Rift and you decide to return said Commander to the hand. WotC said that the stickers are very similar to Post-It Notes and thus should be easy to add and remove plus they should be fairly reusable.
Rangeling and Nearby Planet made me chuckle. Solid card too.
Rock Star is a really fun concept but I really don't like these kinds of "pause the game" cards at Common. Still, in this specific case the idea of "prioritizing drafting cards with names that sound cool to tutor out with Rock Star" is such a wild concept that I can't help but love it. Also, if someone ever flips Into The Maw of Hell out of a Rock Star this automatically eliminates the need to ask anyone which is a plus.
As for the card itself, it's fine, hard to evaluate but probably on the weak side. Opponents will probably try to split up their creatures evenly amongst sectors, which allows you to load up your team on a single sector and then either get a huge swing at their "weakest" sector or pump every creature you own and a few of your opponents' weakest creatures.
And yeah, in case you haven't noticed, Jace DOES pumps your opponents' creatures and destroys your own creatures if they are in the targeted sector. I'd put him on around the same power level as Ajani, the Greathearted since he has a much stronger +1 but also a weaker minus and no passive. And Ajani was fine, didn't saw much play in Constructed but was playable. Of course, I much prefer Space Beleren's design for obvious reasons.
Also I assume the clue "first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes" probably relates to something like "if a creature card portrays a creature with wings, that creature has flying. The same is true for [HINTED TEXT] and trample if it's larger than an adult person"... Or something like that. Either way, sounds fun.